Not much to say about this one, except that it's ironic the Flames stormed back in the last game after falling behind by four, but were buried in this one, even though they were far more dominant after falling behind tonight. The Wild got ahead in the first and went into their protect-the-lead mode, with the added bonus that more than half of their chances from then on in found the back of the net over the course of the evening. One of those nights.

As for Kipper...yeesh. The Wild scored on some grade A chances in this game for sure, but he's fighting it like never before (except for maybe some of 2008-09). That said, the bronx cheer at the end of the game was out of order and I rarely comment on the conduct of fans.

Boy am I glad I stopped watching after the second intermission - though it sounds like the play on the ice got a bit better? Anyway, as much as I detest the booing of a home team, I am not surprised by it when the home team gets blown out at home. Hopefully something like this has a bigger influence on Feaster's decisions to get things moving than all those "little engine that could" OT appearances.

There seems to have been a mood that the team has been on a great run, and are climbing their way back into the hunt...most of their recent points have come from LOSING games! The.. Writing...Is...On..The...Wall!!

So, to me, the Flames D have been trying to block a lot more shots lately...how many of the latest goals have gone in on slight redirects of the one's that got through? ----Now, i'm not trying to absolve Kipper of bad play, I've noticed he's been uncharacteristcally out of position for someone who's good at getting square to the puck...but is this a combination of things that are and are not under his control?

Totally agree on the Bronx cheer being out of order. Couldn't believe it when I heard that on the radio. He's fighting it sure, but how unclassy was that from flames fans after what kipper's meant to this team for so long?

I was starting to fear the flames were going to crawl bak in the playoff race, miss by 2 points, and lose out on a top ten pick. Hopefully this makes it clearer to Feaster et al this isn't a good team and major changes are needed.

What I find so troublesome is that it appears that the team has given up on Kipper and Kipper has given up on the team.

both of which should be entirely meaningless. I mean, play hockey, this isn't kumbaya around a fire pit. PLAY the game.

I mean, I've defended goalies hundreds of times before, maybe sometimes too much. But there is no defending that Clutterbuck shot. That was Toskala kinda bad. Or... more current, Gustavsson. (Sorry Jonas)

Kipper just plainly seemed disinterested.

Granted there is no defending goals 3, 5 and 6 when it comes to defensive effort either.

So WTF gives? We can't be pulling the goalies every game to get the guys going.

Even back in 08/09 there was not a stretch like this. The numbers are similar, and the brutal breakdowns are similar, and the bad bounces are similar, but I don't remember Kiprusoff appearing so disinterested.

I'm probably making something out of what is ultimately nothing in the large scheme of things, but if I'm Sutter, I start Kipper Friday vs Dallas and Karlsson Saturday... cause Vancouver KNOWS how to get to Calgary... and maybe more importantly... to Kiprusoff.

If that's the case, the case ain't good.

It's insanity. I've kept an excel spreadsheet of goalie performance of every significant goalie in the league with evsv% and other since the lockout. Never, have I seen a goalie have stats go from a .924evsv% to a .909evsv% in just 6 games! when they have 800+ evsa. That's rare even if you only have 180evsa. With 800+... it's mind-blowing.

Kipper needs to be way better, and so does the team, rarely do you get both in such a short stretch, sucking so badly. I've never seen it before, it was blowing my mind last night. I just kept saying ... WTF? This is impossible.